In the visible light spectrum, this light was on.
Squirrel
I was taking an infrared photo of mushrooms when someone got a bit curious.
View across Central Park
I am finding that shooting in infrared makes it easier to do long-distance shots that are far clearer than those in the visible spectrum.
Phantasmal Poison Dart Frog
You’d think that the mating call of a phantasmal poison dart frog would be a plaintful, eerie wailing, drifting softly across the swamp, slowly fading into the thin tendrils of fog, trailing into nothingness until they tease nothing but the nascent ears of snakes.
Nope.
Sand Dollar and Sea Star
Wonder if they ever get tied to eachother.
Juvenile Ribbon Dragon
Ent cosplay
Koren Lumpsucker
This is you get by gluing leftover fish bits from other projects and some of the glue leaks out the bottom.
Giant Spider Crab
This crab solved a problem like Maria using series substitution and trigonometric identities, believes the nuns were lazy thinkers.
Umbrella Jelly
These jellies were about one centimeter in diameter.
Sand Dollar
It says a lot about humanity that far more have seen these as dead husks than living creatures.
Crab
Next time you’re at the aquarium, take a close look inside the coral. Never know what you might see.
Dwarf Seahorse
Sometimes I’m not allowed to use flash.
Sometimes that’s okay.
Tube Worm
Sometimes, the line between plant and animal is awful thin.
Heron
Perhaps on the best photos of a completely wild bird that I have ever taken.
Landscape
Where I grew up, the ground could be muddy *or* cracked.
Not in Florida.
Kori Bustard
The goose is not the only silly bird.
Great Blue Heron
“Bokeh” comes from the Japanese word ボケ meaning “blur” or “haze” and refers to the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus parts of a photograph. Bokeh is determined both by the type of aperture in a lens (number and shape of blades) and by the optical quality of the lenses in use. Some lenses allow you greater control over this aspect of photography by using multiple apertures in a single optical pathway. Those people using third party lenses on modern mirrorless cameras can purchase additional aperture modules to place between the lens and the camera body to reproduce this control, while almost all lenses can use a shaped blackout filter on the front lens element to control the overall shape of the bokeh artifacts.
However, heron don’t care about any of this. Heron just wants a fish.
You will rock you
Buddy’s not spry, make a big gneiss
Layin’ on the ground – gonna be a big crag some day
You got mud on your face
Like diabase
Melt-crystallizin’ all over the place
Thinkin’
You will, you will, rock you
You will, you will, rock you
Buddy you’re a young stone, hard stone
Standin’ in the earth – towerin’ o’er the world some day
You got mud on your face
Anorthoclase
Lattice substitution in matrix-space
You will, you will, rock you
You will, you will, rock you
Buddy you’re an built-in mountain
Pleadin’ erosion won’t make you into grit some day
You got mud on your face
With periclase
Metamorphosin’ right there in place
You will, you will, rock you
You will, you will, rock you
You will, you will, rock you
You will, you will, rock you
Tree
Tree grow tall to compete with other trees for sunlight.
Apparently, the reverse is also tree.
Big cat jokes
Q: With which big cat should you never play cards?
A: Cheetah
Q: If a four-legged animal is a quadruped and a two-legged animal is a biped, What’s a tiger ?
A: Stri-ped !
Q: Why can’t a leopard every hide properly?
A: It’s always spotted.
Q: How does the lion stay the king of the jungle?
A: By maintaining claw and order.
Ha!